Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing · Wisconsin

Nordco Oak Creek

Oak Creek, WI · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nordco Oak Creek runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nordco Oak Creek: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nordco Oak Creek safety composite

Nordco Oak Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Nordco Oak Creek: 2.1 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2023

Nordco Oak Creek's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.1 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336510 · Oak Creek, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Alliance NE Car Shop
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alliance NE Car Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nordco Oak Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Nordco Oak Creek averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Nordco Oak Creek TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nordco Oak Creek falls in its industry

208 Brakes and parts for railroad establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Brakes and parts for railroad employers in Wisconsin.

Nordco Oak Creek (161 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nordco Oak Creek
Nordco Oak Creek (161 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nordco Oak Creek has more employees than the Brakes and parts for railroad rolling st median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 2.6 2.0 4 0 0
2022 2.1 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336510 · WI · Oak Creek

208 Brakes and parts for railroad rolling stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 134 employers in Oak Creek, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Alliance NE Car Shop 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans Street 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harsco Rail LLC - LUD 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&B Specialties 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vinton Construction Company 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Monte Foods-Markesan 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Production Plant 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE WI02 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE2 3,202 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIOAK - OAK CREEK 1,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR OAK CREEK (WIOAK) 1,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stella & Chewy's 740 FTE
NAT-TCR J.Carroll 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Geyser Water Company of Calistoga, California 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colors For Plastics EG 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brenmar 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hiawatha Care Center Inc 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avon Protection Systems, Inc. 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Center 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3Harris Randtron Antenna Systems 161 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.